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(No Model.)

P. EGGE.

METAL GHAIN. No. 330.214. Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

N, PETERS. Plain-Lithographer, Washington, D. Q

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

'FREDERICK EGGE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SMITH 8t EGGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

METAL CHAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,214, dated November 10, 1885.

Application filed April it, 1855. Serial,No.162,500. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK EGGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Chains; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art [0 to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in the manufacture of metal chains, and has for its object to provide a cheap and durable chain which is not liable to become kinked.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter fully described, and then specifically designated bythe claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may more fully understand how to make the same, I will proceed to describe it in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of the blank; Fig.

2, a front view of the completed chain Fig.

3, a back View of the same; Fig. 4, a central longitudinal section; Fig. 5, a front perspective, and Fig. 6 a back perspective. Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating a chain formed of links, in which the enlargement C is dispensed with.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

The blank, as shown at Fig. 1, is formed with an opening or eye, A, in one end, the stock narrowing into a shank, B, at the other end.

head or knob, C, and the opening A at its inner end is narrowed, as seen at D, so as to just This shank has at its extremity a small contain the shank back of said head, for the purpose presently explained.

In assembling. the links of my improved chain I pass the shank of one link through the eye of the next link, then bend theshank back and pass it through the narrow end D of the opening in its own stock, and securely clamp the head back of said end. The links may be cut from sheet metal with but very little scrap remaining, or they may be cast from malleable iron. The chain thus formed is of great tensile strength, and of unusually ornamental appearance, and the cost of manufacture is very trivial.

L I do not wish to be confined to the exact shape of the blank and opening therein, as

this may be slightly altered without departing from the spirit of my invention; also, the head or knob on the end of the shank may be dispensed with, as it merely affords an additional security as against the pulling apart of the links, the gist of my invention resting in the broad idea of constructing the chain by bending the links in the manner aforesaid, and not in any particular way of securing them by peculiar formation of the shank or eye.

What I claim-as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a chain formed of a series of elongated links having eyes at one end and terminatingin ashank at the other end, the shank of each link being passed through the eye of the adjacent link and bent back and secured within the opening in its own stock.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDEBICK EGGE.

W'itnesses:

S. S. WILLIAMSON, H. T. SHELroN, Jr. 

